Boston (Massachusetts) – Marco Rossi’s dream came true on Epiphany. The 20-year-old ice hockey talent made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) and was able to look forward to a lot of playing time, a good performance and a win with the Minnesota Wild. The Wild ended with a 3-2 at the Boston Bruins the negative run of their last five defeats.
The explosion occurred two days before the start of the 2022 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that preliminary investigations into the Dakar Rally accident did not show a “criminal suspicion”.
This comes following the French Foreign Minister announced that his government is studying the possibility of canceling the Dakar Rally, following what he said may have been a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia.
Jean-Yves Le Drian said his priority was to protect the lives of French citizens, who make up the majority of competitors in the annual event.
A French driver was seriously injured when his car exploded near Jeddah last week before the start of the rally.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said, “The competent authority in the Kingdom is working to coordinate and inform specialists on the French side of the results of the investigation, photos, information and evidence available to the competent authorities in the Kingdom regarding the accident.”
“The Saudi anti-terror police are investigating the incident,” Le Drian told French radio.
For his part, Dakar Rally President David Castera ruled out ending the competition, telling France Info radio that “the question has not been raised so far”, and that the Saudi authorities “have taken sufficient safety measures to ensure the safety of the race.”
The Dakar Rally was moved from its traditional route across the Sahara desert in 2009 amid fears of attacks.
The rally has been taking place in Saudi Arabia since 2020.
“We thought maybe it would be better to abandon this sporting event,” Le Drian told BFM television. “The question is still open,” adding that “there was a possible terrorist attack once morest Dakar.”
French prosecutors said Tuesday that they had opened a terrorist investigation into the December 30 explosion in Jeddah, which seriously injured 61-year-old driver Philippe Butron before returning to France.
Butron’s son said on Thursday that his father had emerged from a coma, but that his legs were “seriously injured”.
Race organizers and Saudi authorities indicated that there was no criminal suspicion in the explosion, but France warned its citizens in Saudi Arabia and asked them to exercise “the utmost vigilance of security risks” in the wake of the explosion.
“The possibility of a criminal act has not been ruled out,” the ministry said in updated guidelines on its website.
The famous race, formerly known as Paris Dakar, but is currently called only Dakar, set off from the French capital on the way to the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
But security threats along its course in North Africa mean that from 2009 it has been held in South America and 2020 in Saudi Arabia.
Sidney Poitier, the Hollywood star and the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor, has died at the age of 94.
The office of the Bahamas foreign minister, Fred Mitchell, confirmed Poitier’s death to the BBC.
Poitier was a widely respected leading actor, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for “Lilies of the Field.”
Poitier was born in Miami, grew up on a tomato farm in the Bahamas and moved to New York at the age of 16.
He enlisted for a short period in the army and worked a number of small jobs while studying acting, later becoming a theater and screen star.
Poitier was first nominated for an Academy Award in 1958 for his role in The Defiant Ones, and his first nomination for an Academy Award in itself is a historic achievement for a black man to be nominated for the prestigious award in the title role.
Poitier won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in “Lilies of the Field” (1963), in which he played a laborer who helps German nuns build a chapel in the desert.
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Poitier was a regular on the big screen at the time of apartheid in the United States, appearing in the films “Blue Patch” in 1965, then “The Heat of the Night” the following year, followed by “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, in which he played a black man He goes to visit the family of his white fiancée.
In “The Heat of the Night,” Poitier played Virgil Tibes, a black police officer who faces racism while investigating a murder.
Poitier has directed a number of films, and last month announced a Broadway play regarding his life and career.
Amon Warman of Empire magazine told the BBC: “He was a pioneer and very influential and paved the way for many in the industry to make their own mark, including Denzel Washington, who paid him homage when he won an Oscar.”
“He addressed racism directly”
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“Forty years I’ve been chasing Sydney and now they give him the award on the same night,” joked Denzel Washington, who won the Oscar in 2002 on the same night Poitier won an honorary Oscar.
Warman added that Poitier “tacked racism head-on” in his work but was also “very diverse”.
He said, “It really helped change the view of black actors at the time [بفوزه بجائزة الأوسكار]. He was one of the biggest stars during that time.”
George Takei, star of Star Trek, praised Poitier as “a pioneer who will mourn the loss of so many who opened the doors of Hollywood to him.”
Actress Whoopi Goldberg quoted the lyrics to To Sir With Love, the theme song from the 1967 Poitier movie with the same title. She praised him for “showing us how to get to the stars”, while actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt called him a “legend.”
American broadcaster and journalist Oprah Winfrey told Poitier in a 2000 interview that he “envisioned an African American in the film.”
“It was an enormous responsibility,” Poitier replied. “I accepted it, and I lived in a way that showed my respect for that responsibility.”
At CES 2022, BMW has shown a car that can change color. BMW iX Flow can be freely repainted in black, white or any shade of gray. The car can change color as a whole or in parts, creating very bizarre colors.
Although this model cannot go red or, say, green, in the not too distant future it is quite possible to realize a much wider range of colors. Unfortunately, they will not be as bright as the usual paint.
Project manager Stella Clark considers color changing to be a very practical feature. The white color, which better reflects the sun’s rays, will help keep the coolness in the summer, while the black color, on the contrary, will allow the car to warm up in the winter. In this case, energy is required only at the moment of color change, while the air conditioner burns it constantly. Also, the owner might find the car faster by making it shimmer in black and white. Whether this is enough to justify the price of the BMW iX Flow and make it profitable for mass production is still a big question.
And this car is not planned for mass production either. According to the company, this is just a concept.
Color change is possible thanks to E-Ink electronic paper. The entire body of the machine is covered with a thin layer of this material. BMW said it took 10-20 tries to get all the e-paper segments right. The BMW iX Flow has been coated with a special protective coating over them.
Previously, BMW demonstrated a car coated with the blackest substance in the world and ordered the sound of an electric car engine from Hans Zimmer.